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  • In a somer seson, whan softe was the sonne, I shoop me into shroudes as I a sheep were, In habite an heremite unholy of werkes, Went wide in this world wondres to here.

    c.1377 Piers Plowman (B text), prologue, l.1-4. (shoop = got, shroudes = garments)